UFO's are REAL (vol.1+2-narrated by Stanton Friedman)MANSON (1972) d. Lawerence Merrick. not what you might expectThe Fall of Western Civiliztion Pt.1 ( the section on the GERMS and Fear are really amazing!)Lugosi,the Forgotten King-Hosted by Forrest J. Ackermanthe WORLD at WAR Series from the 70's..usta be on PBS all the time back in the 70's and 80'sGIMME SHELTER-the disasterous concert at Altamont.Aileen Wournos:Life and Death of a Serial Killer(2002) sad and scary.

- (a second mention here for ) MY BEST FIEND...definately up there. I consider it pretty much a bookend with BURDEN OF DREAMS(about FITCARRALDO) and sort of shares the spot with HEARTS OF DARKNESS.- American Experience's THE DONNER PARTY.- VISIONS OF LIGHT, the cinematography doc

...and on the long side...- Burns' THE CIVIL WAR and the six hour LIBERTY!- the 13 parter WAR AND PEACE IN THE NUCLEAR AGE...the Taj Majal to the m.a.d.ness of the Cold War.

I tend to be more of a fan of movie-making docos, so Hearts of Darkness and Lost in La Mancha are two good ones for me. I also agree that Visions of Light is also a very interesting look at cinematography.

As for recent documentaries, one of the guys at work said he saw "Bra Boys" the other night, an Australian documentary about the infamous Sydney Gang/Surfing group. It's about a few guys who grew up in a broken home in a bad neighbourhood and how they started a group which was firmly rooted in surfing, whilst some still getting into mischeif/drugs etc.

Seems like a good one, and has gone pretty well in the Box Office here the last couple of weeks.

- ENRON. The Smartest Guys in the Room (a documentary on the rise and fall of ENRON)

- Cocaine Cowboys (2006), the story of marijuana and cocaine traffic in Miami during the 70s and 80s. Many criminals that survived that era provide testmonies.

- Expedition: Bismarck (2002). Co-directed by James Cameron, it accounts the last days of the nazi battleship with the halp of survivors and provides amazing underwater footage of its present day condition.

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The Fog of WarMy Best FiendGrizzly ManEnron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

I can remember The World at War airing on Sunday nights on TBS in the 80s, I'm tempted to buy it. Makes me curious what Ken Burns' The War will be like. I liked The Civil War and Baseball (and I hate the actual sport, so the doc gets extra points for getting me to watch) but I hated his series on jazz music and was underwhelmed by his two parter on Mark Twain. It didn't tell me anything I didn't already know about the man or his writing and I'm a journeyman at best when it comes to the life of Twain/Clemens.

HELEN OF TROY - Bettany Hughes gives tremendous detail about life in the bronze age

THE TRUE STORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT - re-enactments with (English Translation) reads from major source material

THE REAL OLYMPICS - analysis, discussion and re-enactments of the Olympics in Ancient Greece, as well as the evolution of our modern games.

AMAZING JOURNEYS IMAX - major movement in the animal kingdom

HOW THE EARTH WAS MADE - by far, hands down, the best documentary on the history of the earth I've ever seen, and they lay to rest a whole bunch of BS that is popularly "known" in contemporary "science" but not supported by either fact or logical analysis.

THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK - glimpse into the Darfur genocide and the US government's (non) response to it.

- Expedition: Bismarck (2002). Co-directed by James Cameron, it accounts the last days of the nazi battleship with the halp of survivors and provides amazing underwater footage of its present day condition.

I have not seen that particular one, but other Cameron "documentaries" I have seen are laughably stupid and incredibly pretentious. He's not as smart as he thinks he is, and some of us "science types" that watch his drivel get a good laugh.